Infinite zoom

The prompt

Scene paragraph An old wooden toy shop on a snowy winter evening, photoreal family film with warm golden light. Shelves are crowded with wooden toys, rows of marionettes hang by their strings above a long wooden counter, and a snow globe holding a tiny village sits on the counter. An old toymaker with white hair, round glasses and a green cardigan works at the counter. Outside the frosted front window, snow falls on a lamplit cobbled street. Live-action footage shot on 35mm film, real people, natural skin and textures.

The shot opens close on the snow globe on the counter, its tiny village centered in the frame. 0–2s: snowflakes swirl inside the globe. 2–4s: a continuous zoom pushes into the center of the globe. 4–6s: the glass dissolves and the tiny village grows to fill the frame. 6–8s: it arrives at street level inside the village, snow falling, a child pulling a sled past a glowing toy shop window. Throughout: one continuous centered zoom, one continuous take.